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So the other night the Beta mod "warsword Conquest" was released.

It was in a preview state for a while (which was great) but now its revamped to a full blown mod.

It also incorporates many other mods which enhance the experience.

I highly advise anyone who has mount and blade warband to give it a shot. I enjoy it a lot and am loving the ability to play as a lizardmen soldier. So much fun.

Still has some bugs but these will be attended too in time I hear.

http://www.nexusmods.com/mbwarband/mods/5890/?

Anyone else played it yet?

Me! Busy being a sneaky gobbo, slipping through Black Fire Pass with twenty or thirty goblins at a time to loot and pillage.

They have yet to catch me!

The bandit armies are much nastier than original or Phantasy Mount and Blade...I'd take twenty or so forest bandits over fifty night goblins any day.

I agree, so much more variety in the bandits too.

I personally am loving the lizardmen. I do miss some of the units from the preview mod (pygmies and gorillas etc) but its such a blast that it makes up for some of the losses.

Forest goblins are a pain, especially those annoyingly fast wolf riders.

The Goblins look like humans in a Goblin costume :(

 Sigvatr wrote:
The Goblins look like humans in a Goblin costume :(

Just their heads lol. I thought they looked ok over all though. Technically all the races are just humans in a costume

Goblin cavalry is just the best thing ever. It's just so ridiculously fast!

I just annihilated Karl Franz for daring to launch counter-raids into gobbo turf. Sadly, he got away...but his army didn't. My spider rider archer braves ran circles around his knights. Ended up shooting their horses out from under them, at which point they were mobbed by greenies. Proppa taktiks, dat iz!

So far, the oddest thing I've seen is that factions will make peace like normal...so we've got a situation where the dwarfs don't give a damn about the massive Waaagh! marching up through Black Fire Pass to burn down Nuln.

Who's the dominant player on your maps? Skaven seem miles ahead for me, taking chunks out of dwarf territory, swarming into Bretonnia, and raiding the Empire with...pretty much impunity. Da 'umies ain't doin' so hot.

Yea my current mount is a wolf (as a Saurus...) and its exactly what I do. Shoot the enemy horses.

On my map the high elves and pirates are the most powerful. The High elves are beating back the Dark Elves the Pirates are beating back the skaven and goblins but other than that everyone is in stalemate.

The armies can be very careless in this game, its pretty funny to freelance for a king as a paid mercenary in one of the armies because you witness these huge battles and sieges. But you also witness huge stupidity at times. Like once the tomb kings conga lined around my small army did nothing in particular.

I have yet to take a city as I lost well over half my racially mixed men fighting bretonian caravans and although my purse is swelling, my ranks are not. But I am getting there.

Cities are best taken while leading a large army of someone else's troops...

 purplefood wrote:
Cities are best taken while leading a large army of someone else's troops...

In the original i always only used my one army to make and forge an empire. It was very hard but the mod is a new level of hard haha.

Also to those who are wanting a good place to start you can get paid and feed to fight in a lords army. Its a great way to get started and work your way to the top.